Stove attachment.



PATENTED MAY 22, 1906.

E.F.HEAD.

STOVE ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 31. 1904 lkwardjyzaag Witnesse 4 Attorneys FFTUE EDl/VARD FRANCIS HEAD, OF SAULT STE. MARIE, CANADA.

STOVE ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ratenteoi may 22, 1906.

Application filed May 31,1904- Serial No. 210,547.

To (01/ whmn, 711; may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD FRANoIs HEAD, a subject of the King of England, residing at Sault Ste. Marie, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Stove Attachment, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to stoves, and has for its object to provide a simply-constructed and easily-applied attachment whereby the cinders and unconsumed particles of coal may be separated from the ashes within the stove and each separately removed therefrom.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in certain novel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and in which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters, is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the invention capable of carrying the same into practical operation, it being understood that the invention is not necessarily limited thereto, as various changes in the shape, proportions, and general assemblage of the parts may be made Without departing from the principle of the invention or sacrificing any of its advantages, and the right is therefore reserved of making all the changes and modifications which fairly fall within the scope of the invention and the claims made therefor.

In the drawings thus employed, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of the lower portion of a stove having the improved attachment ap plied. Fig. 2 is a transverse section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1.

The improved attachment may be applied with slight and immaterial modifications to any of the various forms and construction of stoves for burning anthracite coal, but is more particularly applicable to heating-stoves and for the purpose of illustration is shown applied to a conventional structure of this character, in which 10 represents the .shell or casing having a fire-pot 11, gate 12, ash-pit 13, provided with the usual ash-pan 14 and with the ash-pit door 15.

Intermediately of the ash-pit or between the grate 12 and the ash-pan 14 a plurality of inwardly-extending brackets 16 are disposed preferably integral with the shell 10, and resting loosely upon these brackets is a supporting-frame 17, the latter having at one side, preferably at the rear, a stud 18, fitting in an aperture in one of the brackets 16 and having at the other side a socket 19 for a shaker-bar, (indicated at 20.) The frame 17 supports a cinder and ash receiving pan 21, having a grated bottom 22 and held from lateral displacement by stop lips or ribs 23, extending from the frame. By this simple arrangement it is obvious that the frame 17, carrying the pan. 21, may be freely vibrated upon the bearings or brackets 16 around the stud 18 as a center.

The shell 10 is provided with a door 24, which may be opened to permit removal of the pan 2]., and the shell 10 or door 24 is also provided with an aperture 25, through which the shaker 20 may be inserted and entered in the socket 19. By this arrangement of parts when the grate 12 is shaken the ashes and other refuse matter, together with the cinders and unconsumed particles of coal, are received by the pan 21, and then when the latter is shaken the ashes and other finer refuse ma terial passes to the ash-pan, leaving the valuable cinders and particles of coal only in the pan 21. The pan can then be removed and the contents disposed of either by dumping into the fire chamber or magazine or reserved for future use, as may be preferred. By this means the valuable material can be saved without trouble or danger of scattering the ashes about, as generally results when the whole material is received directly into the ash-pan in the ordinary manner and then sifted outside the stoves. lVith this arrangement the sifting is all accomplished within. the stove with very little additional labor and without danger of the escape of dust or ashes.

The device is very simple in construction and will add materially to the value and efficiency of a stove equipped with the same.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is In a stove, the combination of a casing having a fire-pot and grate and provided. with a door at a point below the grate, said casing having a plurality of inwardly-extending spaced brackets, a supporting-frame mount- ICC ed on the brackets and having a stud enter- I my own I have hereto affixed my signature in ing an opening in one of them, said frame bethe presence of two Witnesses. ing further provided with a plurality of spaced ears or lugs, and a screening device mounted f EDWARD FRANCIS HEAD on the frame and held from displacement by Witnesses:

said ears or lugs. E. K. WISMER,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as i N. N. V. ALWARD. 

